Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

Let me share a lesson with you that I've been learning since attending Pilates pretty consistently in January.

Now, I know that every gym, every workout studio, January is the busy month, right?

It's our resolutions. We're like a new year, clean slate. Not that we ever have to wait for a

new year, my friends. You can start over in any moment. I've been going to Pilates. I'm also

doing my dry 90 challenge, so no alcohol between now and

April. And I'm enjoying it, loving it, feeling a bit more internal, spending much more time at

home. And what's interesting is one of the teachers who I tend to work out with quite often,

she says, allow the modification. Now, what does that

mean? So in Pilates language or in general workout language, there's like the base move, there's

slightly a more advanced move, and then there's a modified move, meaning it's easier, you feel more

supportive, you feel more supported in that move move and you're not hitting it extremely hard.

It's like, okay, I need to go a bit slower here. I'm going to modify. So for example, it would be like

taking a plank on your knees instead of your toes. And one thing that the teacher said to me that

really stood out was, hey, you showed up. You've already won. You're here. If you need it, take the modification.

And she was saying this because I think people have been going harder more regularly.

Our bodies are probably a little bit more sore. And instead of showing up and reprimanding

ourselves or berating ourselves for not doing the perfect class or going as hard as we did

yesterday or two days

ago, we think it's not worth it. We think that there's no point. But my friends, what if that's

simply not true? What if good enough is? What if showing up is enough? What about us just

praising ourselves and acknowledging ourselves for doing something that many people

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